In recent days, a campaign through the social network has emerged in front of the media. TIC Tac in which many of its young users ask for the cancellation of rapper Eminem, all due to a fragment of the song released in 2010 called ” Love the way you Lie “, which turned out to be considered as problematic.
Faced with this “controversy”, Slipknot musician and singer Corey Taylor offered his take on the situation, which he compared to the witch-fire in the Salem trials , asking if we had come to this. this stage as a society.
Taylor took part in the new installment of a series of interviews conducted by radio 95.5 KLOS in which he shared some details about the new book he is currently preparing. make sure that “he started to feel that itch” for the writing and that he already has a concept in mind.
“It has to do with social media and the age we live in, ‘the age of outrage’. And it’s starting to take shape in my head. I could write it soon, because it’s getting really out of hand right now, ”the musician says.
It would be at this point from which Taylor took the topic on Eminem as a reference . “I was reading about how Gen Z is trying to ‘undo’ Eminem for a line in a Rihanna song he did with her and I’m just thinking, ‘Is this where we are now? I mean, at this point you’re talking about the Salem witch trials. “
You talk about the United States in the 1920s when the KKK was a political force . You talk about complete condemnation without context or without rationalization for an action like that.
Corey considers it dangerous “when the crowd decides you are going”, compared to the setting of the Roman Coliseum. This is where it is dangerous. The level of censorship that we are starting to see. And I am not saying that some things were not said and that they easily offended people.
The musician believes that the flip side presents a scenario in which even the cleanest situations cannot be joked without people who have no sense of irony or satire jumping on the attack on them.
“It can’t be so, if we can’t have a conversation, how the hell are we going to communicate?” And if we can’t understand the difference between a metaphor and a complete reality, then we have real problems. And that’s where my book will land, ”he concludes.
Taylor He has anticipated preparations for a limited tour to promote his solo album, which will implement social distancing measures. He also planned that next month he will feature new slipknot news .
